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Andy Robertson looks in brilliant nick because he has only played half a season at Liverpool.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

"Ronnie looks in good nick and is hitting the ball well and seems confident so he could have a big say in this tournament," said four-time champion Higgins.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

The country stored up 1.26 billion barrels of oil in the nick of time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

It built up those reserves just in the nick of time.

From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026

I was the last to arrive, but I’d made it in the nick of time!

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

Scott Boland bowled 74 deliveries to Root in the remaining three Tests of that series, conceded 39 runs and dismissed Root four times by consistently probing at that fuller length and finding nicks.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025

Living “in the heart of elephant country” from 1966-70, Mr. Douglas-Hamilton learned to tell hundreds of elephants apart, largely through the shape of their ears or tears and nicks in them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

“Yes, it’ll get nicks, but it’ll still be beautiful.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2023

“You always get bumps and bruises and nicks and don’t feel great. You just keep going.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

As her fingers tightened on her scabbard, he could see the scars and nicks on her skin shifting over her tendons.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

Imagine it like this: It is late in the evening of April 15, 1865, and Abraham Lincoln has survived an assassination attempt, the bullet aimed by John Wilkes Booth having merely nicked his now-bandaged scalp.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

To test the idea further, the researchers created "nicked" DNA, strands that were interrupted at specific points.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2026

Ben Duckett miscued Starc to mid-on and Zak Crawley edged the same bowler to second slip, either side of Jacob Bethell's Ashes debut yielding one run before he nicked Neser.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025

He was bang on it and a big reason why Brighton nicked a draw.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025

After the execution, Clinton remarked, “I can be nicked a lot, but no one can say I’m soft on crime.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

His dismissal was the fourth time in his four-Test career he has been caught nicking off to the wicketkeeper or the slips, however.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

And, of course, we’ve been in a reciprocal comedy arrangement with Britain — or at least we have been nicking their ideas for shows — for years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026

Instead this is the type of game where they will go and grind out a 'one-niller', by nicking a set-piece goal.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026

Brook played and missed, attempted two ramp shots after which he fell over both times, before nicking behind off Bosch's medium pace.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2025

The wind’s pummeling me, the salty spray nicking my hot face, the ocean below drumming as ferociously in my head as out of it.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson